#04 Esquire
The Quint Guitars #04 Esquire is a lovingly crafted T-style guitar that combines vintage aesthetics with modern playability. Built with premium components and meticulous attention to detail, this guitar features a lightweight pine body finished in a beautiful relic Daphne Blue nitro by MJT.
Versatile Single Pickup Design
Despite its minimalist single-pickup configuration, this Esquire offers remarkable tonal versatility through its three-way switch:
- Position 1: Direct pickup to jack for maximum output
- Position 2: Pickup with volume control
- Position 3: Pickup with both volume and tone controls
This innovative wiring allows you to quickly switch between lead and rhythm sounds. When paired with effects like octave or germanium fuzz, the guitar achieves incredible sustaining tones that defy its single-coil nature.
Premium Components
Every component has been carefully selected for optimal tone and reliability:
- Custom “David Gilmour” spec Esquire pickup
- CTS pots with high-quality cloth wiring
- MOD tone capacitor
- Gotoh staggered chrome tuning machines
- Gotoh Brass ‘in-tune’ saddles
- Aged hardware for vintage authenticity
- Cream ceramic knobs and 3-ply pickguard
Future-Ready Design
While the single-pickup design offers a pure, focused tone, the body features standard Telecaster routing. This allows for easy modification to a traditional dual-pickup configuration if desired, though the current setup’s versatility may make additional pickups unnecessary.
Specifications
- body
- Pine with MJT Relic Daphne Blue Nitro finish
- bridge
- Aged bridge with Gotoh Brass 'in-tune' saddles
- controls
- CTS Pots, cloth wiring, MOD tone capacitor
- fretboard inlays
- Clay dots
- hardware
- Aged screws and neck plate, Switchcraft + electrosocket jack
- neck
- WD Music Maple with Rosewood fretboard
- neck finish
- Light satin tung oil
- pickguard
- 3-ply cream
- pickup
- Custom David Gilmour spec Esquire
- tuners
- Gotoh staggered chrome
- weight
- 7lbs 2oz